Whatever Age, weight, flexibility or belief, You can practice and gain great benefits from Yoga. Even though Yoga originated in India, It is for all nationalities and beliefs. Their is no discrimination in this wonderful way of life.
Yoga is more than gymnastics, fitness training or a way to control your weight. It is more than just stress reduction, meditation or some form of spiritual tradition from India. Yoga is all of these things plus a great way of life. This tradition has been around for 5,000 years. The exercises are somewhat like gymnastics with great benefits. These postural exercises help you become or stay fit and trim, control your weight, and reduce your stress level.
Yoga also offers a range of meditation practices, including breathing techniques that exercise your lungs and calm your nervous system or charge your brain and the rest of your body with great energy. Yoga can be used as an efficient system of health care that has proven its usefulness in both restoring and maintaining health. Yoga continues to gain approval within the medical field; more and more physicians are highly recommending Yoga to their patients not only for stress reduction but also as a safe and sane method of exercise and physical therapy.
Yoga And Unity
The word Yoga comes from the ancient Sanskrit language spoken by the traditional religious elite of India, the Brahmins. Yoga means "union" or "integration" and also "discipline," so the system of Yoga is called a unitive or integrating discipline. Yoga seeks unity at various levels. First, it seeks to unite body and mind, which people all too often separate. Some people are chronically "out of the body." They can't feel their feet or the ground beneath them, as if they hover like ghosts just above their bodies. They're unable to cope with the ordinary pressures of daily life and collapse under stress, and they're often confused and don't understand their own feelings (emotions). They're afraid of life and get easily emotionally hurt.
Yoga also seeks to unite the rational mind and the emotions. People frequently bottle up their emotions and don't express their real feelings, choosing instead to rationalize these feelings away. Chronic avoidance can become a serious health hazard; if people aren't aware that they're suppressing feelings such as anger, jealousy, envy, hatred, these things will eventually consume the person from inside out. That is why so many people suffer today from chronic illnesses and disease. People have to learn how to release these emotions and not suppress them.
Ways Yoga can help you with your personal growth:
- Yoga can put you in touch with your real feelings and balance your emotional life.
- Yoga can help you understand and accept yourself and feel comfortable with who you are. Be real about who you are, and know that you don't have to pretend to be someone that you are not.
- Yoga helps you become more able to empathize and communicate with others. Yoga helps you to be more expressive and open to communicate with those around you.
Yoga is a powerful means of psychological integration. It makes you aware that you're part of a larger whole, not merely an island unto yourself. People can't survive in isolation. Even the most independent person is greatly indebted to others. After your mind and body are happily reunited, this union with others comes about naturally. The moral principles of Yoga are all-embracing, encouraging you to seek kinship with everyone and everything.
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